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	<description>Reflections Of One Not At Home In This World</description>
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		<title>Who Would Jesus Deport</title>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2010/05/01/who-would-jesus-deport/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 02:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Grimes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, the first of May, there were protest all over the country against Arizona&#8217;s new immigration law.  One protestor was carrying a sign  &#8220;Who Would Jesus Deport?&#8221; What if it said &#8220;Who Would Jesus Marry?&#8221;  (I mean by this not get married to but whose marriage would he preside over.)  Can you image the outrage? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abandoning Those Most in Need</title>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2010/04/30/abandoning-those-most-in-need/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 01:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Grimes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you follow what&#8217;s going on in the news in Africa, especially in Zimbabwe, you can see what suffering amidst chaos the church is dealing with there. Did anyone at the ELCA Assembly last August even stop to consider how the vote to roster gays would affect our ability to stand with them in solidarity and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ELCA Fallout</title>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2010/04/06/elca-fallout/</link>
		<comments>http://resident-aliens.org/2010/04/06/elca-fallout/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 02:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Grimes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the cover story of this month&#8217;s &#8220;The Lutheran: &#8221; &#8220;Sexuality issue causes division, sadness &#8212; and hope: Assessing the fallout from decisions made at the 2009 Churchwide Assembly, one can read the following: Jo Hollingsworth, an admittedly left-leaning member of Hope Lutheran Church in Fostoria, Ohio, supports ELCA&#8216;s decisions on sexuality issues. She finds her decision strengthened by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Church Constituencies?</title>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2010/04/01/church-constituencies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Grimes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a recent Synod newsletter referring to the upcoming Synod Assembly: &#8220;Congregations with members who are persons of color or persons whose primary language is other than English: Send one additional lay voting member from each constituency.&#8221; Huh? Did I miss something in Galatians 3:28: &#8220;There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Red Pew, Blue Pulpit</title>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2010/01/07/red-pew-blue-pulpit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Grimes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an interesting article today in &#8220;The Courier-Journal&#8221; about a new survey done by the Research Services of the Presbyterian Church U.S.A.&#160; &#8220;Donkeys are often preaching to elephants in Presbyterian churches, a denominational survey says. Specifically, Democrats outnumber Republicans by a 2 to 1 margin among Presbyterian pastors. In contrast, Republicans far outnumber Democrats among [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Questions: Adam and Eve</title>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2009/11/15/questions-adam-and-eve/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Grimes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his song &#8220;Could it Be,&#8221; Michael Card sings:  &#8221;Could it be that questions tell us more than answers ever do?&#8221;  I often think so.  So I am starting a new category as a place marker for me to pose questions that I think can lead to interesting reflections. First up:  What if Adam had told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Offering as Worship</title>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2009/09/13/the-offering-as-worship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Grimes</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stewardship]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Temple Talk on stewardship I gave today at church. My talk this morning is on giving as an act of worship.  These talks are structured around Mark Allen Powell’s wonderful book: Giving To God, the first chapter of which is “An Act of Worship.”  I can’t recommend this book highly enough, but I don’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maher and Persecution</title>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2008/04/18/maher-and-persecution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Grimes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Maher recently said: &#8220;I&#8217;d like to tip off law enforcement to an even larger child-abusing religious cult. Its leader also has a compound, and this guy not only operates outside the bounds of the law, but he used to be a Nazi and he wears funny hats.&#8221; Of course the Catholic church is protesting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seasons in the Son: Why I Am Lutheran IV</title>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2008/03/20/seasons-in-the-son-why-i-am-lutheran-iv/</link>
		<comments>http://resident-aliens.org/2008/03/20/seasons-in-the-son-why-i-am-lutheran-iv/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Grimes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am writing this on the eve of spring; as the northern hemisphere transits from the season of death to the season of rebirth, so too the Church transits from the season of Lent to the season of Easter. Because Easter is dated on the lunar calendar used to calculate Passover, we do not always [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Am Lutheran—Part I: Liturgy</title>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2007/12/02/why-i-am-lutheran%e2%80%94part-i-liturgy/</link>
		<comments>http://resident-aliens.org/2007/12/02/why-i-am-lutheran%e2%80%94part-i-liturgy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 15:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Grimes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve never agreed with the statement that familiarity breeds contempt. I have found that all too often familiarity breeds inattention, not apathy or callousness so much as forgetful neglect. Unfortunately, we humans all too often take for granted that which is most precious and familiar to us. And it’s not just “stuff” we do that [...]]]></description>
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